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The father of Vestris was a painter of some celebrity at Florence, and originally from Tuscany." "The visit of the favourite brother of Marie Antoinette, the Emperor Joseph the Second, to France, had been long and anxiously expected, and was welcomed by her with delight.
I went constantly to the theatre, where Madame Vestris was dancing. On January the 7th or 8th, I saw the empress dowager come to the theatre dressed in black; she was received with applause, as this was the first appearance she had made since the death of her husband.
My music has been logically composed, and with the ideas of my head; and, of course, there is very little room left for capering. If Tasso had thought proper to make Rinaldo a dancer he never would have designated him a warrior. "Rinaldo was the part Vestris wished to be allotted to his son.
But she doesn't come back." "And Nick? Do you find him?" Madame Vestris knew very well who "Nick" was. During the last three or four years she had replied to a great many questions about Nick Hilliard, and her answers had brought her a goodly number of ten-dollar bills. For crystal-gazing her charge was ten dollars: with a trance in addition, twenty-five. "I see a man standing beside you.
No record of Sophie Arnould's artistic associates is complete without some allusion to the celebrated dancers Gaëtan Vestris * and Auguste, his son. Gaétan was accustomed to say that there were three great men in Europe Voltaire, Frederick the Great, and himself.
My son is very sorry and will dance most bewitchingly if Her Majesty will graciously condescend to order his release! "I repeated the conversation verbatim, to Her Majesty, who enjoyed the arrogance of the Florentine, and sent her page to order young Vestris to be set immediately at liberty. "Having exerted all the wonderful powers of his art, the Queen applauded him very much.
* This boast of Gaëtan Vestris seems to have inspired the lines which Moore afterward addressed to a celebrated danseuse: ".... You'd swear, When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps are of light, that her home is the air, And she only par complaisance touches the ground." The son inherited the paternal arrogance.
But Gluck, whose German obstinacy would not give up a note, told Vestris he might compose a ballet in which he would leave him his own way entirely; but that an artist whose profession only taught him to reason with his heels should not kick about works like Armida at his pleasure. 'My subject, added Gluck, 'is taken from the immortal Tasso.
The quarter-deck was filled with mustiphenas, mustees, mulattos, Sambos, and delicate, flat-nosed, large-mouthed and thick-lipped black ladies. Had Vestris been present, she might have taken some new hints in dancing.
My son is very sorry and will dance most bewitchingly if Her Majesty will graciously condescend to order his release! "I repeated the conversation verbatim, to Her Majesty, who enjoyed the arrogance of the Florentine, and sent her page to order young Vestris to be set immediately at liberty. "Having exerted all the wonderful powers of his art, the Queen applauded him very much.
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